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  Nuffield College, Oxford - Definition, explanation
Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Despite being one of the newest and smallest of the colleges, its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout, and its modernistic spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.
Nuffield College was founded in 1937, on a site on the western side of the city centre, donated by William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (Lord Nuffield).
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/nu/nuffield_college__oxford.php   (254 words)

  
  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He was educated at Clifton College (1917-22) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-26), an expensive education financed by mathematical scholarships.
In 1946 he returned to Oxford, first as a research fellow of Nuffield College (1946-52), then as Drummond Professor of Political Economy (1952-65), and finally as a research fellow of All Souls College (1965-71).
In 1946 he returned to Oxford, first as a research fellow of Nuffield College (1946-1965), then as Drummond Professor of Political Economy (1952-1965), and, after that, research fellow of All Souls College (1965-1971).
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=John_Hicks   (886 words)

  
  Nuffield College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Despite being one of the newest and smallest of the colleges, its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout, and its modernistic spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.
Nuffield College was founded in 1937, on a site on the western side of the city centre, donated by William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (Lord Nuffield).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuffield_College,_Oxford   (167 words)

  
 Nuffield College, University Of Oxford
Nuffield is a graduate college of the University of Oxford specialising in the Social Sciences, particularly Economics, Politics, and Sociology.
Nuffield College, which was founded in 1937, is located in the centre of Oxford.
The Oxford Alumni Weekend is organised by the Oxford University Society, in conjunction with colleges.
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk   (260 words)

  
 Reporter 8/10/97: Nuffield College, Oxford
The College proposes to appoint, with effect from 1 October 1998, an Official Fellow in Politics.
Nuffield is a graduate college specializing in the social sciences, particularly politics, economics, and sociology.
The main interests of the College are in Economics, Politics and Sociology, but these are broadly construed to include, for example, recent history, social and medical statistics, international relations, area studies, and social psychology.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5714/31.html   (371 words)

  
 Nuffiled College Graduate Seminars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Nuffield College Graduate Student Seminar in Political Science is accepting proposals from doctoral students to present their work at the University of Oxford.
Nuffield is a graduate college of the University of Oxford specializing in the social sciences.
The Nuffield College Graduate Student Seminar in Political Science is a weekly forum to present dissertation chapters, conference papers, and other publication projects in Politics and International Relations.
www.psa.ac.uk /con_and_app/nuffield.htm   (238 words)

  
 David Butler (Oxford) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945.
He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
His wife, Professor Marilyn Butler, is a former rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and was the first woman to head a previously all-male college.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Butler_(Oxford)   (146 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 6 October 2005
Nuffield College intends to appoint, with effect from 1 September 2006, a number of Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs).
They will be expected to organize a seminar or workshop in their subject area during the three-year term of their appointment and the college can help finance and organise these activities.
Nuffield College seeks PPRFs in Economics, whose responsibility it is to engage in independent research in any area of Economics.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2005-6/weekly/061005/appts/entry_7.htm   (480 words)

  
 Nuffield College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2007/08
Nuffield is a graduate college, founded in 1937 to promote advanced study and research in the (broadly defined) field of social sciences.
It is a relatively small college with a total student body of around 100 (including continuing students), of whom about 40 are resident in college.
The college library is one of the finest in the social sciences, and is open at all hours for Nuffield students.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/colleges/nuff.shtml   (474 words)

  
 Lord Nuffield
Son of Frederick Morris who became a clerk in Oxford after several speculative journeys to the wild west of the United States of America in attempts to make his fortune and Emily Ann Petter, a farmer's daughter.
Oxford as a repairer of bicycles in the shed at the bottom of his father's garden with the starting capital of £4.
Set up a Professorship of Anaesthesia at Oxford University as he had always wanted to become a doctor and remembered his traumatic operation of 1928.
www.britainunlimited.com /Biogs/Nuffield.htm   (279 words)

  
 OWL 2.0: Nuffield College
Nuffield College is a relatively new (completed in 1962) social sciences college for postgraduates.
College libraries tend to be small, something which can be beneficial for a trainee.
However in my opinion, one of the greatest advantages of being at Oxford is the access it allows to a huge variety of libraries and therefore an understanding of the extent to which libraries can vary.
www.lib.ox.ac.uk /owl/nuffield.html   (696 words)

  
 Nuffield College Oxford new spire seen along New Road | Photo by Aidan O'Rourke Manchester photographer writer website ...
Oxford modern architecture, Oxford colleges, Oxford architecture, Oxford skyline, Oxford cityscape, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK The spire of Nuffield College seen along New Road Oxford from near the Oxfordshire County Council buildings.
The Nuffield College spire was designed to fit in with the existing architecture of the Oxford colleges.
The Nuffield College spire has been described as the most modern and ugliest spire in Oxford.
www.aidan.co.uk /photo4756.htm   (281 words)

  
 Marshall Scholarships: Application for a 2008 Scholarship - Partner Scholarships
As a College of the University of London the Courtauld Institute of Art is located in the centre of London, in Somerset House, one of the most important neo-Classical buildings in the country, and only a few minutes walk from major London museums and galleries.
Imperial College London was established in 1907 through the merger of the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines.
The College saw a 100 per cent increase in the number of departments achieving the highest 5 and 5* ratings since the last RAE in 1996 - a total of 60 per cent of all departments in the College were in these bands.
www.marshallscholarship.org /applicationpartner.html   (5758 words)

  
 Oxonia > Who We Are > People
He is also Director of the Oxford Economic Research Associates Ltd (OXERA), Honorary Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford University, and member of the editorial board of numerous economics and finance journals.
Born in 1950 Professor Snower gained a BA in Mathematics from New College, Oxford University, an MA and a PhD at Princeton University.
Vines is Professor of Economics in the Economics Department, Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
www.oxonia.org /whoweare_people.html   (1974 words)

  
 John R. Hicks - Autobiography
Thus, during my school days, and in my first year at Oxford, I was a mathematical specialist; to the mathematical training I received at Clifton, in particular, I owe a great debt.
I became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1942; a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy in 1948, of the Accademia dei Lincei, Italy, in 1952, and of the American Academy in 1958.
I am an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, since 1958 and of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, since 1971.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1972/hicks-autobio.html   (769 words)

  
 Oxford Honors Studies Program Academics
The small size of the Oxford tutorial allows students to think seriously about their subjects and discuss them with experienced scholars in a unique, intimate setting.
All courses and tutorials are taught by faculty drawn from the various colleges of the University of Oxford by the Head of Faculty, Philip Waller.
He has taught at Mansfield and Exeter Colleges at Oxford, the Università degli Studi di Venezia and is an historical reader for the University of Oxford Press.
www.bu.edu /abroad/programs/england/oxford/oxford_hsp/aca.html   (962 words)

  
 London College of General Studies Program Academics
Caroline is also presently teaching at University College London and Birkbeck, Faculty of Continuing Education.
She has been teaching since 1982 and has held a variety of posts as a teacher, manager, and educational consultant for biology studies and learning skills.
Between 1997 and 2002 he was a member of the History faculty at the University of Oxford and served as Research Co-ordinator and Reference Editor for the New Dictionary of National Biography, a fifty-million word reference work on British history due to be published in fifty volumes in 2004.
www.bu.edu /abroad/programs/england/london/london_cgs/aca.html   (1530 words)

  
 NUFFIELD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Nuffield College seeks one PPRF in Econometrics, whose responsibility it is to engage in independent research in any area of Econometrics.
The appointment will be for three years, with the third year contingent on a doctorate having been completed within an appropriate time.
Further details and application form from http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/General/jobs/ or from Economics Secretary, Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK (economics.secretary@nuffield.ox.ac.uk).
www.aeaweb.org /joe/0610d/html/joe303.html   (147 words)

  
 Euro Summer School
Oxford University has established a new Department of Sociology, which is closely linked with Nuffield College and has premises adjoining the College.
Nuffield is a post-graduate college specialising in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology.
The college has a long and distinguished record of sponsoring conferences and workshops in social science and has developed excellent facilities, including one of the finest social science libraries.
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de /projekte/ecsr   (3546 words)

  
 Biography Details
Laurence Whitehead is an Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University and Senior Fellow of the College.
He also does graduate teaching in contemporary Latin American politics and economic policy at Oxford's Latin American Centre, and has held various appointments as a visiting scholar at universities in the USA and Latin America.
Most recently he was a senior visitor at the Center for International Studies of the University of Southern California, where he served as coordinator of the 1995 'Southern California Workshop on Economic and Political Liberalization'.
www.salve.edu /pellcenter/functions/biography_detail.cfm?bio_ID=34   (330 words)

  
 Graduate Student Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The fifth annual Harvard-Oxford (Nuffield)-Stockholm Graduate Student Conference was held March 16-17, 2001 at Nuffield College, Oxford.
The conference, which is organized and run entirely by graduate students, is held every year at one of the three institutions; last year, the conference was held in Stockholm.
The second night, students were treated to dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant, and then invited to the Nuffield College Bar.
www.wjh.harvard.edu /sociology/conference.html   (235 words)

  
 brief bio
I was educated in Bonn, Freiburg, St. Antony's College, Oxford, the European University Institute (EUI), and Nuffield College, Oxford.
From 1999 to 2001, I served as the Associate Director at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge.
After finishing my doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1996, I worked for a while as a Senior Associate for McKinsey and Co., Munich.
www.econ.upf.es /~voth/briefbio.htm   (209 words)

  
 Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Professor John Muellbauer is an Official Fellow in Economics, Nuffield College and Professor of Economics, University of Oxford.
He was previously a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and before that he was an economist at the Department of Trade and Industry.
He holds degrees from the Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.
www.housingoutlook.co.uk /Pages/bio.html   (357 words)

  
 Department of History::People::Faculty::Bernard Wasserstein
College Lecturer in Modern History and International Relations, Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1974-6.
President, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Fellow of St Cross College 1996-2000.
Secondly; a micro-historical study of a small Polish town, Krakowiec, over the period 1772 to 1946, analysing the evolution of collective relations of the three main communities in the town, Jews, Poles and Ruthenians (Ukrainians).
history.uchicago.edu /faculty/wasserstein.html   (632 words)

  
 John Quah's Page
Comparative statics with concave and supermodular functions, Working Paper, Nuffield College, Oxford, No.2004-W1 contribution to duality theory applied to the measurement of risk aversion (with Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz), to appear in Economic Theory
Comparative statics and welfare theorems when goods are normal, Working Paper, Nuffield College, Oxford, No. 2001-W24.
Demand is heterogeneous in Grandmont's model, Working Paper, Nuffield College, Oxford, No. 2001-W12.
www.economics.ox.ac.uk /Members/john.quah/homepage.htm   (505 words)

  
 The Educational Progress of Children In and Out of Care -- HEATH et al. 19 (1): 447 -- British Journal of Social Work
Dr Anthony Heath is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
He was a co-author of Origins and Destinations: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980) and has written extensively on the sociology of education.
Dr Jane Aldgate is a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies and Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
bjsw.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/19/1/447   (360 words)

  
 dhoovercv
CCCU Initiative Grant: $15,000 for research, conferences, and manuscript preparation for the study, "Cooperative Christianity in Comparative Perspective" with Daniel Goodwin of Atlantic Baptist University (Project Director, dgoodwin@abu.nb.ca), Mark Noll of Wheaton College, Richard Loughheed of Faculte de Theologie Evangelique, and Samuel Reimer of Atlantic Baptist University.
Alan Ware, Worcester College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2HB, England.
Gillian Peele, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6QA, England; e-mail, gillian.peele@lady-margaret-hall.oxford.ac.uk.
www.trincoll.edu /depts/csrpl/cvs/dhoovercv.htm   (1308 words)

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